Prashant Batra

Sr. Product Manager with Receiver and Gateways Group

  1. Access Gateway powers MDX technologies for secure mobility and BYOD

    Mobility is hot! Every enterprise wants to go BYOD. Employees are loving it, Execs are loving it, and IT is confused. Fear not, cause Citrix Access Gateway (as a part of Citrix XenMobile) is here to help. If you have followed enterprise mobility over the last few months, there is no way you are not aware of all the super cool stuff that’s happening around Citrix ...

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  2. Citrix Access Gateway: Demystifying the .E releases

    End of 2012, Citrix launched CloudGateway 2.5, and as part of that release, Access Gateway launched its version number – 10.0-71.6014.e. The .e in the version number has intrigued, as well as confused some of us. Let me try and demystify this. Access Gateway (Enterprise) as you know, is based on the NetScaler platform. NetScaler has two different kinds of releases: MR – Maintenance Releases .E – Enhancement ...

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  3. Citrix Access Gateway Plug-in Automation APIs

    Citrix Access Gateway is the best secure remote access device, for all your Citrix deployments. While a lot of your HDX applications and desktops can be accessed over Access Gateway, without requiring any client installation on the end points, there are times / use cases, when you do need to install a client as well. You would do so if: You need to access corporate websites, ...

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  4. Seamless Receiver experience with Access Gateway

    Citrix Receiver is the coolest way to access your enterprise applications. Not only does it give you a great end user experience, but also the experience is native for all the popular platforms that exist today. Citrix Receiver is available for your iPads, iPhones, Android devices, Windows, Mac, Linux platforms (and more).  And for the devices that do not have a native receiver, we have ...

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  5. Citrix Access Gateway – UI Theme Customization

    Access Gateway is a secure remote access product and hence tends to be the entry point for corporate users, wanting to access their enterprise applications and desktops. Given this, it makes sense for corporates, to try and customize the logon experience on Access Gateway, to match their corporate look and feel. Access Gateway has always allowed for this customization, though, it’s been somewhat of a tedious ...

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  6. What’s new with Access Gateway MAC Plug-in release 2.1.4

    The new Citrix Access Gateway Appliance release 10.0.71.6014.e brings along with it the new MAC plug-in release 2.1.4. MAC OS, along with Microsoft Windows, are the two main desktop platforms supported by Citrix Access Gateway for full SSL Tunnel. The AG plug-in is most commonly used in tandem with Citrix Receiver, to provide access to your virtual applications and desktops, provided by XenApp & XenDesktop ...

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  7. What’s new with Citrix Access Gateway Release 10.0.71.6014.e

    With the release of Citrix CloudGateway 2.5, comes the release of Citrix Access Gateway 10.0.71.6014.e. Citrix CloudGateway as you are aware, is the Citrix Enterprise Mobility offering, complete with Citrix Receiver running enterprise applications on the end point, Citrix Storefront running your enterprise app store, Citrix AppController running your mobile policy management and Citrix Access Gateway providing remote access to all this infrastructure. With every CloudGateway ...

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  8. Secure Gateway to Access Gateway migration

    Secure Gateway is a Citrix component that has been used for long, to provide secure remote access to Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop deployments. The Secure Gateway transparently encrypts and authenticates all user connections, to protect against data tampering and theft. Citrix has another product, that is actively used to secure access to XenApp / XenDesktop deployments – Citrix Access Gateway. Citrix Access Gateway is more than ...

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  9. Access Gateway Licensing Demystified Part 2 (HA)

    As a follow up to my earlier post Access Gateway Licensing Demystified, I want to add some Licensing details around HA – High Availability. I have received ample questions around how licensing works with HA, and I hope to be able to answer those here. Once again, note that the Access Gateway discussed in this blog is the Access Gateway based on NetScaler, which is popularly referred ...

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  10. Access Gateway Licensing Demystified

    Access Gateway discussed in this blog is the Access Gateway based on NetScaler, which is popularly referred to as Access Gateway Enterprise. Citrix has recently announced End of Life for all non-NetScaler based Access Gateway platforms, which then makes Enterprise edition, the de-facto Access Gateway. In this blog, we will discuss the two license types used on your Access Gateway appliance, the two kinds of vServers ...

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